The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-15
PATRONS OF HUSBANDRY.

pervision.
BUTLER Grange, No. SS, Michigan,
has lately added forty eight new names
to their roll book and five more on
the way"
The Executive Committee of tie
New Hampshire State Grange has ap
pointed Saturday, June 4th, as "Chlld.
ren's day." 2
STATE Master. w. 8. Chowen, of
Minnesota, is arranging an active
GUNNER campaign" to commerce
after corn shuckiDg.
A. s. ASHLEY, secretary Of Sullivan
grange, No. "a, Tioga county, Penn
reports tn It they have initiated thirty
five men aud twenty-six women dur
ing the last qusrer.
A. N. Brown, Master Delaware State
grange: There is no room for idle
hands in gra1ge work in This State.
Patrons, "onwsrd and upward" is the
watch word.
THE grange sets farmers to reading
and thinking. In States where the
Grange has Deen at work longest and
beat, the ciIc 1lation, specially of sgri-
cultural papgrs, has greatly increased.
WITHIN few weeks Massachusetts,
and Connecticut have organised a Pa
irons Fire Insurance Company, Off
cered by leading members Ct the
Grange, and each company starts of
with $500 600 Of insurance.
STATE DEPUTY j. W. LANG, OF
Maine, has recognized Progressive
Grange No. 38-twelve who were
members OF the old Grange when it
surrendered Its charter, and twenty
nine others, forty.one in all. They
will build new hall at once.
missouri has joined in the general
grange revival Low going on. Ava l..
Page, secretary Of the state Grange,
has been actively at work for several
months in the lecture field. He re-
ports: Since the first of the yesr we
have increased the number OF oranges
(by reorgsr ization) 80 per cent.
WIN. BUNCR, Master: Greeley's
Grove Grange, Iowa, is prosperiug.
Increasing in numbers and meets
twice month. Last summer We pur-
chased lot, put up building 48x22
feet, two stories high. This is the four
teenth year / have been elected Mas
ter, and have presided at every meet.
ing wnen O quorum WAS present, ex'
cept one.
RoscoR g. SMITH, Lecturer, Cornish
Grange, Maine: Let us not forget what
the Grange is. II ie not pleasure alone,
ncr a trade, nor profession. 1t is a
i,yuus duty, a noble manhood aud
wOmsnhood, charitable life, The
grange is an inward possession. 1t is
not altogether matter of gain, but OF
giving; not altogett or OF boarding, but
OF diffusing.
BEFORE the coming OF the grange,
farmers never had an organization
covering The whole country, and
adapted in all it's principles, its teach
ings and practices TO every portion OF
cur land. For over twenty years has
il been in existence; had 1t not been
right and founded upon justice and
truth, 1t ever would have lasted all
this time. IL has been thoroughly
tried and proven, and has resulted not
only in great good to its own mem
beers, but to farmers everywhere and
to others not farmers. 1t is no longer
a theory, no longer an experiment.
It ia today q bright, living fact, and
one of the permanent institutions OF
our country.
A FEW years ago there was great
glee among the middlemen and over
bea,ing corporations. The reason for
their 10y was peculiar, and to the ord.
nary mind not provocative Of merri.
ment. 1t was simply this: There was
a Temporary lull in the activity of the
Patrons of HusbsndIy and immedi-
ately its naughty and greedy foes set
up the cry, 10 the grange is on lite
la,t legs; 1t is lying down to die
Just here was where their mistake
very naturally occurred, for the
grange was merely resting itself up
Tor more vigorous Efforts, for now be-
hold, il is on its feet sgain, and is hit.
ting out from the shoulder with 9
viRor and vim that lie at once terror
and surprise to its sdversaries.
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